Monthly Report Of The Department Of Agriculture For November And December 1873 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture: For November and December, 1873 The quality of corn is reported poorer than last year in nearly. All the States, the only exceptions being Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, Alabama, and California. The Western States give the lowest figures: Iowa, 83, (a depreciation on the whole crop of last year of one-sixth;) Illinois, 85 Indiana, 88; Ohio, 85; Missouri, 79; Kansas, 7 9; Nebraska, 76. Other States do not exhibit a depreciation of more than ten per cent; except Pennsylvania, which is reported at 86. The prevailing characteristics of the season have been a wet Spring, a summer too dry and short, early frosts, in many places cool rains in early autumn. The early-planted corn ripened well; much of the late-planted was immature when frost came, some of it so soft as to be of little value after thorough freezing. That portion of the early-planted which was deficient in drainage, either natural or artificial, was either drowned out or in jured in its vitality and subsequent growth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.